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by emddudley 3y ago
I have tried to quickly diff the previous TOS with the new one and I wasn't able to identify any big changes. I would like to know what the actual changes are. I see a lot of articles criticizing the new TOS, but no one is showing the
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by emddudley 3y ago
This is exactly the same situation that web developers faced with Internet Explorer 5 and 6, and it sucked for end users!
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by emddudley 3y ago
What kind of grants?
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by emddudley 3y ago
This simulation looks like it assumes that your investments stop growth upon retirement, as if you'd move them all to cash. Makes it seem like your savings won't last as long.
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by emddudley 3y ago
I like to use https://tld-list.com/ for registrar shopping. It has a lot of data on costs and features for many registrars.
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by emddudley 3y ago
What a corrupt way to view the world.
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by emddudley 4y ago
You expect a 22 year old to know this? How was Mitchell supposed to have discovered this?
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by emddudley 4y ago
The video is not private or deleted. Isn't this it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLWXJ22LUEc
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by emddudley 4y ago
We could have implemented less painful solutions 30, 20, or even 10 years ago, but we didn't, so now we only have drastic options remaining. Time is precious and immediate action is needed, even if we don't agree on the best solut
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by emddudley 4y ago
Power metal? Check out Unleash the Archers. Excellent band.
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by emddudley 4y ago
"Lars Knoll is The Qt Company CTO and Qt Project Chief Maintainer. He has been working on Qt for more than 13 years starting as a software engineer to later leading the global Qt engineering team in Nokia before the Digia acquisition i
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by emddudley 4y ago
There is no scientific, consistent way to define race. The groups we put people into is fairly arbitrary. They don't correlate to appearance, genetics, country of origin, etc. An interesting question in the U.S. is "who is conside
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by emddudley 5y ago
What is your budget?
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by emddudley 5y ago
Emoji support is currently the top requested feature for Windows Terminal. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is...
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by emddudley 5y ago
His blog seems to be excluded from archive.org, but I have found archived copies elsewhere. I don't want to link directly but you can find it with a little searching for his "Evolution for Windows" blog post from 2005.
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by emddudley 5y ago
> We don't even have nearly enough hardware to give every engineer access. This is the problem I always run into too. An emulator should be standard on any system development program that has software interacting with hardware.
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by emddudley 5y ago
TikTok sorts you according to it's interests, not your own. Just because they notice that you are more engaged with irritating content doesn't mean you like irritating content.
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by emddudley 5y ago
Python-centric forums, like r/Python: https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/ I think the RealPython site is excellent for learning, even for mid to advanced users: https://realpython.com/ They also
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by emddudley 5y ago
Teams has worked great for me. It's comparably fast to Slack. Calls and screen sharing work perfectly. I am not sure what is different about my situation versus the other users here. I use the native app on Windows, and my org currentl
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by emddudley 5y ago
This is a great article. Many good thoughts on subtle design decisions that I think anyone writing Python should ponder from time to time.
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by emddudley 5y ago
Ah, it's interesting to see how it has changed over time! Thanks for doing some digging.
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by emddudley 5y ago
The cited BLS distinguishes between "Software Developers" and "Computer Programmers". It says Software Developer employment will increase by 22% over the next 10 years, while Computer Programmers will decline by 9%. htt
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by emddudley 5y ago
The term "SME" is common in engineering. It is equivalent to "domain expert".
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by emddudley 5y ago
By the time you are specifying things in such unambiguous detail you should be writing code and iterating.
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by emddudley 5y ago
The current revision, V3, was published in 2013.
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by emddudley 5y ago
I currently maintain an app that uses wxPython and it still feels dated and clumsy. Everything is named poorly, the documentation has large gaps, and there are numerous pitfalls and gotchas. I am in the process of moving to PySide and will
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by emddudley 6y ago
I've loved computers my entire life. You don't suddenly become a different person when you enter a new decade. You do start to recognize how young (30minus) software engineers don't have perspective.
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by emddudley 6y ago
Didn't say that. It's not clear to me what happened, could be a number of things. Probably coincidence. Just felt like I had the same experience as the person on Reddit. Went to buy an unregistered domain, and it got registered by
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by emddudley 6y ago
I just tried to buy wow.quest 2 minutes ago and it feels like the same thing just happened to me. Between me searching and checking out it got registered: Registrar URL: https://namecheap.com Updated Date: 2021-03-03T14:30:2
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by emddudley 6y ago
I'm from the U.S. and the phrases "potter around" and "potter in the garden" are new to me. I have always used "putter". My pronunciation of putter is "puh-ter" (same sound as under) and potter i

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